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翁 — Venerable old man

JLPT N110 strokesSecondary school#2064 most used
venerable old man
On’yomiオウ (ou)
Kun’yomiおきな (okina)

Stroke order (10 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).

Common words using 翁

WordReadingMeaning
おきな
okina
old man; venerable gentleman; venerable

Study notes

翁 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 10 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #2064 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).

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